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Hong Kong

Any day when you unintentionally come across a good, new restaurant is a good day. When I went to Wan Chai this afternoon for some chicken steak rice I ended up at the Poke Co. This is a brand new restaurant in their first day of operation (to be exact, they did a trial run yesterday and officially opened today). The shop is right where the old Landale Street pop-it used to be, and the layout inside wasn’t much different. …

Us locusts don’t usually find ourselves at Hysan Place for lunch on weekends, despite that we do happen to be in Causeway Bay quite often. It is just way too busy for our liking and you often have to wait for tables. This day, though, we happened to be at eslite around lunch and decided to have lunch at Ming Bistro. It is said that Ming Bistro is run by the second generation of the family behind the restaurant chain Ming Garden (名苑酒家), which…

Miss Saigon Vietnamese Cuisine… play the music! They’re called bui-doi… the dust of life… Conceived in hell… and born in strife. Such was the first thought I had when I saw the name – a song from the musical Miss Saigon by Claude-Michel Schönberg et al. Then I remembered the scene in the musical where a bunch of Vietnamese bar girls / prostitutes compete for the title of “Miss Saigon”. Yes, it’s never a bad idea to research more extensively when picking a name. Not…

Cafe Ürsus has, before anything, an interesting name. My two-minute effort on Google yielded no interesting results, but Google translate suggested that it may be Estonian. My suspicion however, is that the intention was to make a smiling face out of the U. Which makes this a happy place and that goes pretty well with the kindergarten-like design for the logo indoor. Interestingly, the indoor design had almost nothing to do with the outside. Where the inside of the shop…

Viet Kitchen is a new Vietnamese restaurant at the ground floor of Nexxus Building next to the Heng Sang Bank HQ. Supposedly the chef is from Chom Chom, another Vietnamese shop on Peel Street, which I haven”t verified. Supposedly food will be good. We visited some two months after Viet Kitchen opened – when the restaurant should be past its initial stage of adjustments. So how did it go? The setting of the restaurant was appealingly casual, with comfortable yet…

Ethos, for us, is located at a very convenient location. For those who don’t live in the area, however, this might be more difficult to find. This new fashion boutique cum cafe is located near the top of Hill road, almost opposite the West Gate of HKU. We came here one Saturday afternoon for a quick coffee – it had to be quick, as the store was packed and we were lucky to have got a table. This was, unfortunately, no longer…

We have wanted to try Plat du Jour for a long time, but we don’t go to Quarry Bay often and on the few occasions when we did try to eat here without a reservation, the restaurant was either closed or past last order time or reserved for a party. Finally, we have made a reservation for dinner on a weekday evening in January. Located next to Cod Father and opposite a few coffee shops on Hoi Wan Street, Plat du Jour…

La’taste Vietnamese Cuisine is a newly opened restaurant at the ground floor of Far East Centre. This is the fourth shop of the chain, adding to their presence in Mong Kok, Olympian City and Central. This is also a much welcomed addition to the meager roster of restaurants that are available to the culinary desert at the gap between Central proper and Admiralty – exactly where I happen to work – also a place where restaurants come and go in the…

Having had two rather mediocre, yet un-cheap, meals in Macau, we were in need of a good dinner. Fortunately we had a reservation for dinner at Pierside – we feared it would be difficult to secure a table had we not book, and that proved to be right. They were quite fully booked for the night. The shop is located near Piccolo pizzaria on Davis Street, where the old Bistronomique shop used to be. The shop maintained the high floor…